The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is well known for giving awards to movies, but the academy also gives awards to the best video games of the previous year in an annual ceremony.

And this year’s BAFTA Game Awards takes places on April 7 in London, and will honour top video games like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Her Story, which have both been nominated for 7 awards, while the original and atmospheric adventure game Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture has garnered the most nominations, and is up for 9 awards. So without further ado, here follow the nominees for the 2016 BAFTA Game Awards.

Best Game

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED)

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Heavyweights Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3 are no doubt the top contenders in this category, and of course Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, which has garnered the most nominations. But perhaps the original episodic adventure game Life is Strange or the soccer and racing hybrid Rocket League might surprise gamers and scoop the Best Game Award this year…

Nominees:

Life Is Strange

Fallout 4

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Rocket League

British Game

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is a beautiful-looking and atmospheric adventure game and no doubt a strong contender to win this category, although indie sensation Her Story with its novel approach to storytelling shouldn’t be dismissed either.

Nominees:

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture

Batman: Arkham Knight

Prison Architect

Tearaway Unfolded

Until Dawn

Her Story

Game Design

Bloodborne (FromSoftware)

Bloodborne’s challenging gameplay and clever map design will square off against The Witcher 3’s open world greatness in this category, although Her Story’s clever crime investigation story and Rocket League’s original concept also make those games top contenders for the award.

Nominees:

Bloodborne

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Her Story

Grow Home

Rocket League

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Music

Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios)

Composer Inon Zur’s superb score for Bethesda’s Fallout 4 is no doubt the top contender in this category, although other nominees like Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and Ori and the Blind Forest also had superb musical scores.

Nominees:

Batman: Arkham Knight

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture

Ori and the Blind Forest

Fallout 4

Halo 5: Guardians

Performer

There is no doubt that British game Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture had pretty strong voice acting, so the fact that two of that game’s voice actors were nominated in this category makes a lot of sense. But will Star Wars’ Mark Hamill bag the BAFTA Performer Award after it eluded him last year at the Game Awards or will Doug Cockle (aka Geralt of Rivia) go home with the award instead?

Nominees:

Merle Dandridge (Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture)

Oliver Dimsdale (Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture)

Ashly Burch (Life Is Strange)

Mark Hamill (Batman: Arkham Knight)

Masasa Moyo (Broken Age)

Doug Cockle (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)

Story

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED)

There is no doubt that The Witcher 3 is the game to beat in this category, as it had superb quests that dealt with mature themes, although it is up against some pretty strong competition in story-focused titles like Sam Barlow’s Her Story and the PS4’s surprise horror hit Until Dawn.

Nominees:

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture

Life Is Strange

Until Dawn

Undertale

Her Story

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Multiplayer

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (Asteroid Base)

It is clear that The Taken King expansion for Destiny not only added to the game’s story but beefed up the multiplayer side of things, adding new Strike missions and maps, making Destiny a top contender for the multiplayer award no doubt. But the original space game Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime had some superb co-op and shouldn’t be overlooked, and neither should Nintendo’s original paint shooter Splatoon.

Nominees:

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege

Destiny: The Taken King

World of Warships

Rocket League

Splatoon

Game Innovation

Her Story (Sam Barlow)

In an age of derivative video games, true innovation is hard to come by, and games like Life is Strange with its time-rewinding mechanic and Her Story with its clever detective plot are truly innovative titles in this category. Although Nintendo’s cool approach to the third-person multiplayer shooter with Splatoon make that game a worthy contender too.

Nominees:

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture

Her Story

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Life Is Strange

Until Dawn

Splatoon

Mobile & Handheld

Fallout Shelter (Bethesda Game Studios)

Fallout Shelter was an unexpected hit for American publisher Bethesda and also a great mobile game in its own right, and there’s no doubt that both it and Lara Croft Go are this category’s heavyweight titles. But perhaps The Room Three, with its great atmosphere and smart puzzles shouldn’t be overlooked either.